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Van Hellseek

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can anyone recommend a good vampire book? i've just spent the last hour trawling sites like amazon and all i can seem to find are books that are mainly written by women who seem to be putting the emphasis on romance. i'm not after a slightly gothy mills and boon, i'm looking for a decent vampire book. preferebly one with a modern city-based setting.

all the ones that don't sound like romance novels sound horribly cheesy ("bite club" anyone?). one name that keeps coming up for instance, is "laurell k hamilton", but i can honestly say i'll never read a vampire novel where the main character has the name "merry gentry". :rolleyes:

anyone got any recomendations?
 
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aardvark said:
brian lumleys Necroscope series - very good
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not sure...

The story revolves around a young man, Harry, that has the ability to speak to the dead. Over the course of the other book she battles vampires to protect earth alongside the ESPianoge branch of the British secret service and the dead actually rise up to protect Harry.
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that sounds a little silly to me. :/
 
seek said:
not sure...


that sounds a little silly to me. :/
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it does sound silly put like that - but they are good.

read the first one and see if you like it - there are 13(?) in total i think
 
seek said:
all the ones that don't sound like romance novels sound horribly cheesy ("bite club" anyone?). one name that keeps coming up for instance, is "laurell k hamilton", but i can honestly say i'll never read a vampire novel where the main character has the name "merry gentry". :rolleyes:

anyone got any recomendations?
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The Anita Blake books are very good (although I'm lead to believe they start getting a bit daft after about book 6 or 7)

The Merry Gentry books are not vamp books - they are more fairys and stuff (and some of it is very sexual - its like fantasy meets erotica)

While not purely vamp books, you might want to look at Kelley Armstrong books.

Sherrilyn Kenyon is another one that has been recomended to me but I've personally not read any yet.

Kim Harrison is quite good - again not mainly vamps but there are vamps there (one lot run a restaurant :D )

Liz Maverick is a recomendation to me that I've not got around to reading yet but sounds quite interesting ("Imagine Sin City spliced with Underworld and you have "Crimson City". Labelled so following the race wars between humans, werewolves and vampires, the 3 species now co-exist in uneasy harmony)

Erm...Thats all I can think of for now :o
 
isn't bite club a graphic novel anyway?

yes it is, just checked, iirc its not _bad_, just not omgwow
 
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Takhisis said:
The Anita Blake books are very good (although I'm lead to believe they start getting a bit daft after about book 6 or 7)

The Merry Gentry books are not vamp books - they are more fairys and stuff (and some of it is very sexual - its like fantasy meets erotica)

While not purely vamp books, you might want to look at Kelley Armstrong books.

Sherrilyn Kenyon is another one that has been recomended to me but I've personally not read any yet.

Kim Harrison is quite good - again not mainly vamps but there are vamps there (one lot run a restaurant :D )
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the anita blake books again seem to be putting massive emphasis on the sex. and they didn't get particularly favourable reviews. besides, they're by the same writer who came up with the name "merry gentry". a sin that will not be easily forgiven. ;)


kelley armstrong - seems to be more werewolves than vampires. i began to read about one of her books...
In this thrilling new novel, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-century–and become his next target.
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haha!


Sherrilyn Kenyon - sounds like yet more romance... her books have titles like "fantasy lover" and "night pleasures" and the covers feature men with their six-packs out.

kim harrison - i admit some of these sound amusing, if a touch buffy-esque. but the thing that really puts me off is that the one i looked at was "every which way but dead", which aside from having an awful title had a tagline which talks about the characters lovelife. another female author writing romance novels disguised as gothic horror. :/

on a positive note though, i can't seem to find anything better so i might try one anyway. :)
 
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seek said:
the anita blake books again seem to be putting massive emphasis on the sex. and they didn't get particularly favourable reviews. besides, they're by the same writer who came up with the name "merry gentry". a sin that will not be easily forgiven. ;)


kelley armstrong - seems to be more werewolves than vampires. i began to read about one of her books...

haha!


Sherrilyn Kenyon - sounds like yet more romance... her books have titles like "fantasy lover" and "night pleasures" and the covers feature men with their six-packs out.

kim harrison - i admit some of these sound amusing, but the thing that puts me off is that the one i looked at was "every which way but dead", which aside from having an awful title had a tagline which talks about the characters lovelife. another female author writing romance novels disguised as gothic horror. :/

on a positive note though, i can't seem to find anything better so i might try one anyway. :)
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sadly lots of vampire books seem to focus on the sex (dunno how, wasn't part of the vampires prime fiction that they had no genitalia?).
 
One of the best "horror" books I read was called "The Light At The End", and was about vampires lurking in the subway tunnels in modern day New York City.
I can't remember the author's name or the publisher, but it was probably a mid-late 80's book and was pretty gory rather than romantic.
 
daveyj27 said:
One of the best "horror" books I read was called "The Light At The End", and was about vampires lurking in the subway tunnels in modern day New York City.
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now this sounds much more up my alley. shame it's an 80's book though. was really hoping for something recent. might give it a look anyway though.
 
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now this sounds much more up my alley. shame it's an 80's book though. was really hoping for something recent. might give it a look anyway though.
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IIRC, the story is that the Police think that a serial killer is on the prowl in NYC, but it's really a vampire (called Rudy I believe).

Good book, but I lost it many years ago.
 
seek said:
if that was a plot spoiler you should be ashamed of yourself. :p
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Nope, not a spoiler. The story reads from both points of view, the Vampire's and the detective's, so you know from the start what's going on.
 
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